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Sunday, May 6, 2018

YouTube Censors MEMRI - For 'Harmful Or Dangerous Content' - MEMRI

by MEMRI

MEMRI TV Translated Clip Exposing Statements By Anti-Semitic Gaza Religious Scholar At 'Return March': 'The Sword Of Jihad... Is Brandished' Against The Jews; 'I Call Upon Every Muslim: Do Not... Let Those Jews Spread Corruption... You Must Carry Out Glorious Deeds Against Them'

A MEMRI TV clip
posted on April 24, 2018 on the MEMRI TV YouTube channel translated and
exposed anti-Semitic statements by Gaza religious scholar Khaled Hany
Morshid. The MEMRI TV clip shows Morshid at the Gaza "Return March"
stating in a religious lecture that "one of the greatest duties... and
best forms of worship... is to fight those Jews." He goes on to state
that in order to stop the Jews, the "sword of jihad for the sake of
Allah is brandished and they are made an example of," and adds: "I call
upon every Muslim: Do not stand idly by and let those Jews spread
corruption... You must carry out glorious deeds against them."

YouTube: "Video Removed: Inappropriate Content"

The same day, YouTube removed this MEMRI TV clip from the channel, with the message: "Video Removed: Inappropriate content."

YouTube also posted on the page a notification explaining that the
video had been "flagged for review" – that is, by YouTube users – and
that YouTube had subsequently "determined that it violates our
guidelines." It added, "We've removed it from YouTube and assigned a
Community Guidelines strike, or temporary penalty, to your account" and
warned: "If you receive three or more of one of the types of strikes
listed above, we may have to disable your account."

MEMRI Appeals YouTube Decision To Remove Clip; YouTube Rejects Appeal

MEMRI appealed YouTube's decision to remove the clip, explaining that
it is an educational resource and part of the research of the MEMRI
Lantos Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial archives, which exposes
anti-Semitism in the Arab and Muslim world and provides informational
infrastructure for policies and strategies to counter anti-Semitism.

This appeal was rejected by YouTube, which stated: "After further
review of the content, we've determined that your video does violate our
Community Guidelines and have upheld our original decision."

It should be noted that at the end of every MEMRI TV clip it is
stated: "MEMRI is a non-partisan, independent research institute
providing research, analysis, and translation of primary materials
covering a wide range of issues, including terrorism and ideological
trends in the Middle East. These video clips are provided as a public
service to an international viewing audience to bridge the language gap
and better educate and inform. Material about statements by terrorists
and extremists is provide to alert the public to threats, and in no way
constitutes an endorsement of such activities."

MEMRI's previous YouTube channel, which had more than 60,000
subscribers and hundreds of millions of views, was terminated in July
2016; despite MEMRI's numerous appeals for information to resolve the
outstanding issues and to regain access to the account, we were never
successful in doing so.

An article
published March 2, 2017 by Tablet magazine, "Why Is YouTube Punishing
People Who Translate and Expose Anti-Semitism on Its Platform?"
highlighted the termination of our YouTube account. It stated: "For
years, YouTube has been taking down videos that translate and expose
anti-Semitism and punishing those who post them. Perhaps the most
notable victim of this censorship is MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute."

The article went on to describe the importance of MEMRI's work,
saying: "MEMRI translates television and media from across the Middle
East, highlighting both bigotry and those activists who seek to fight
it." It also explains YouTube's flagging system and how an account can
be terminated like MEMRI's was: "YouTube's system for identifying
problematic content relies on users flagging and reporting allegedly
objectionable videos. Site staff then sort through the reports and
remove content at their discretion. Unfortunately, this process is
easily gamed by those bigots and their sympathizers who don’t want
MEMRI's material out there."

MEMRI is the only organization in the world that comprehensively
monitors anti-Semitism in the print and broadcast media, education
systems and schoolbooks, and Friday sermons in mosques in the Arab and
Muslim world, and produces hundreds of reports and videos on the
material it has found. MEMRI's Lantos Archives on Anti-Semitism and
Holocaust Denial are the largest archives in the world of translated
Arabic, Farsi, Turkish and Urdu/Pashtu material on anti-Semitism from
the past two decades.

It should be noted that in the past, MEMRI has met with YouTube to
discuss the issue of jihadi and anti-Semitic content on the platform.
MEMRI has done extensive research on this subject, including how YouTube
allows U.S.-designated terrorist organizations, among them Hamas and
Hezbollah, to maintain multiple accounts – thus violating YouTube's own
Terms of Service and Community Guidelines.

MEMRI has worked closely with leading agencies devoted to the issue
of anti-Semitism, such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
and Yad Vashem Israel Holocaust Memorial, and others. MEMRI has also
worked on this issue with the U.S. State Department and bipartisan
Members of Congress, among them then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi,
then-House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, then-House Majority Leader Steny
Hoyer, U.S. Vice President Joseph R. Biden, then-Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, Sen. John McCain, then-Secretary of State John Kerry,
and then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Khaled Hany Morshid: "Allah mentioned the enmity of
the Jews toward Islam and the Muslims in His book, saying: 'You will
find that the people strongest in enmity for those who believe are the
Jews.'

[...]

"The Prophet Muhammad did not take his dealings with them lightly.
His clever way of dealing with them was to make an example of them. When
a Jew tried to violate the honor of a Muslim woman, the Muslims arose
in arms to fight the Jews, and to drive them out of Medina. The Banu
Qaynuqa' tribe was among the most courageous of the Jews. They were
brave people of war. But when they began to display enmity toward Islam
and the Muslims, the Prophet Muhammad banished them from Medina,
uprooting them completely. Similarly, when the Jews of the Qurayza tribe
violated their treaty with the Prophet Muhammad, the Prophet Muhammad
exterminated them, down to the very last one.

"The best way to describe the record of the Prophet's treatment of
the Jews is one of violence and force toward the Jews. This is what all
the Muslims should know. The relation between us and them is one of
eternal enmity. The Jews will never stop this enmity unless the sword of
Jihad for the sake of Allah is brandished, and they are made an example
of, as was done by the Prophet Muhammad.

[...]

"I call upon every Muslim: Do not stand idly by and let those Jews
spread corruption upon the land. [You must] carry out glorious deeds
against them. One of the greatest duties, and one of the best forms of
worship in our day, is to fight those Jews."

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